Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign reached its peak when she got Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt interested in her problems. Mrs. Roosevelt was so appalled that, after describing the school's condition in her column, she mercifully invited all the girls in the School to the White House, gave them tea on the lawn...
...acclaimed sutler by the beleaguered refugees. First measure of Farmer Cannaday was to accept a loan of eight full-uddered Hereford cows from a dairyman whose farm lay in the path of Generalissimo Franco's advancing legionnaires. Quartered in the embassy garage and pastured on its expansive lawn, the cows produced enough milk to supply the embassy's needs, plus some for bartering purposes with the otherwise well-supplied neighboring British Embassy. Cannaday's measure No. 2 was the purchase of ninety skins of olive oil from a man who feared confiscation by Spain's collectivist...
...emerges from these to confront an antique statue, glitteringly gilded; the statue falls, bursts open, revealing a cache of medieval manuscripts. At last, from an atmosphere grown dreamlike in its portentous illogicality, he walks out into the moonlit garden, sees a dark half-familiar figure passing across the lawn-God. The meeting is surprisingly casual, perhaps one of the least apocalyptic of such encounters in literature...
Margit is not a bit like Charlie. In her well-appointed home all menus are typewritten. Eggs are boiled in electrical gadgets to insure correct timing, the gardener waters the lawn when the paper says the weather will be good, even if he has to do it in the pouring rain. Margit runs a gown-shop and the lives of everyone around her. She only makes a deal with Charlie Lodge to keep him from splitting, caddishly, Irene and Waldo. The deal is that if he stops fascinating Irene, Margit will pose for her portrait-for three weeks...
...shiny now contraption that looks like a cross between an electric lawnmower and the Wright Brothers' first airplane moves smoothly along over the elm covered lawn of the Yard scooping leaves as it goes. Creation of a vacuum is the principle by which the machine operates. A large roller is turned, creating a fine vacuum and whoosh!--all the leaves are in the basket...